Kirk R. Darling <73063.3115@compuserve.com> asks:
> What was going on with Ivanova?

Thanks...you hit all the subtleties right on the head.

"You understand the concepts of breaking down a human psyche."

(shrugs) Well, sure...I work for Warner Bros.

jms

(blocked) asks:
> What's always been difficult for me to grasp in the ancient hero
> myths has been "What does this have to do with me?" (Or was that
> "Brave New World"?

Thanks...the message is just that, that we *all* have to choose
to resist from time to time, and that one individual can fight the
system. And we are all that individual at one time or another.

jms

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Exactly. The banal face of evil. You look at most of the guys
who ran Treblinka, or Bergen-Belsen, and they're largely ordinary
looking guys, who could be accountants or repair men or car salesmen.
They're *us*...and this was designed to remind us of that. The evil,
mustache-twirling villain is too easy, and too far from the truth of
it.

jms

{original post unavailable}

You got every single one of the points of that one.

And that's one reason (among many) that I kept Sheridan silent
for the most part; a) because the less he says the better overall from
his position, and b) the audience would want to respond for him.

jms